Leading dailies disagree on whether the rise of the anti-immigration AfD in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election has proven Chancellor Merkel’s immigration policies wrong.

Chancellor Merkel is an unfit leader in a time of crisis, Zoltán Kottász comments on the results of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election in Magyar Idők. The pro-government commentator interprets the growing popularity of the radical AfD and the far-left Die Linke as proof of growing anti-establishment sentiments. The main reason for the CDU’s decline is Angela Merkel’s failure to realize that Germans want strict limits on migration, Kottász thinks.